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There was a terrible mass murder at a movie theater in Colorado last July, another at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin in August, another at a manufacturer in Minneapolis in September, and they all were almost unbelievable.

But the most horrific occurred in December at the Connecticut elementary school.

Since 1982, there have been at least 62 mass shootings across the nation.

Each incident was given lavish TV news coverage. Unfortunately, the news media custom for reporting gun violence is called: “If it bleeds, it leads.”

Congress is reported to have more than 200 gun-related bills to ban everything from assault weapons to high-capacity magazines (meaning any magazine over 10 rounds).

One measure that should be approved is to require police background checks for everyone who buys a gun. Unfortunately, this would not have helped the pupils in Connecticut because the killer stole his mother’s weapons.

The problem may be that the news media exploit the event, which gives ideas to potential killers.

The news media give the killer lead story reporting for days to include a picture of the killer and gory details of his life and motives.

I call it glorification of the killer and the mass shooting.

New details have emerged in the investigation of the deadly Newtown, Conn., grade school shooting that suggest the killer, Adam Lanza, fed his obsession with violence by keeping meticulous records about mass murderers for years.

Investigators report a spreadsheet 7 feet long and 4 feet wide, a document that contained Lanza’s obsessive, extensive research about mass murders of the past.

A law enforcement source reported that Lanza, an avid video game player, hoped his attack would put his name at the top of the list of killers.

We need to ban such reporting. Many people want to amend or remove the Second Amendment. How about changing the First Amendment?

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